Word: loon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dark theatres on Sunday nights. Now he covers large canvases with intricate designs, all highly symbolical. Before he turned to painting racial types of India Mr. Stowitts attracted considerable attention in the Parisian press by posturing at private parties completely nude and painted blue. Historian Hendrik Willem van Loon's son Willem Gerard van Loon reversed the process by starting as a painter, ending as a dancer (TIME, July...
...have forgotten which, as I find them lying around my mother's apartment here, a week or more old, and read the wisecracks without looking at the dates. you copied an article in the division called People, from the Herald Tribune to the effect that Hendrik van Loon, Hendrik Willem van Loon to be exact, had arrived in America and groaned at the prospect of his son's becoming an interpretative dancer (TIME, July 20). And that son you called Hendrik Willem van Loon Jr. That's all very well except for two mistakes, first...
WILLEM GERARD VAN LOON...
...voice of Horse Doctor Doyle saying: "I don't want to go to jail." Max D. Steuer, one of Tammany's slickest and most willing legal henchman, quickly announced that it was he who had telephoned from the Curry apartment. He had, he said, telephoned to his wife at Loon Lake. But the New York Telephone Co. declared that calls-to Loon Lake never go through Lake Placid. Lawyer Steuer then hedged on his story...
arrived in Manhattan and disclosed that Hendrik Willem Van Loon Jr., a resident of Paris, is going to become an interpretative dancer. Said Father Van Loon: "It was hard to learn of this." But he said he told his son: "Otto Kahn let his son [Roger Wolff] do as he wished [lead bands, fly airplanes] and so I'll let you do as you wish, and become an interpretative dancer...